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Five different moons of Saturn in one image
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Article
Space

It’s your chance to name a moon of Saturn

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Oct 18, 2019
Normally, when a comet, asteroid, or moon is discovered in our Solar System, the discoverer gets to name the object. This time around, scientists are changing things up! In early October, scientists announced the discovery of 20 new moons in orbit around the planet Saturn. The team who found these new Saturnian satellites have created a Twitter contest, whereby anyone from around the world can suggest names for them. Want to try and name a moon of Saturn? Then check out this article.
A screenshot from the game, StarBlox Inc.
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Podcast
Space

Space museum reaches for the stars with new Nintendo game

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Oct 17, 2019
Staff at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum helped launch StarBlox Inc., a new game for Nintendo Switch. Read more about the museum’s approach to making the game — and hear an audio clip from CBC’s All in a Day .
Two of the main actors of the Québec television series Kosmos 2001: Guy Ferron (on the left) and Percy Rodriguez. Anon., “de passionnantes aventures interplanétaires: ‘kosmos 2001’ ” La semaine à Radio-Canada, from 25 April to 1 May 1964, 32.
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Arts & Design

A thrilling, or slightly too abstract, television series, set against a Cold War background: Kosmos 2001

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Oct 15, 2019
Jó naput / hello, my reading friend. And yes, you are quite right in saying that the photograph at the beginning of this article did not appear in La semaine à Radio-Canada ¸ a weekly published in Montréal, Québec, in October 1959 or 1969. I appealed to it because it allowed me to talk about a Québec television series aimed at a young audience, one of the first televised science fiction series in Québec and Canada in fact, whose premiere took place in October 1959, 60 years ago. Produced by the
The cover of a recipe book, featuring a yellow box of Margene on a blue background.
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Article
Agriculture

Margarine: The complex story of a simple spread

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Oct 11, 2019
The production of cheap margarine was a boon to poorer consumers. Although some countries adopted it easily, other countries tried to eliminate it or limit its availability. In the 1870s, margarine began to spread (pardon the pun) to other countries.
The Manitoba II , Physics Department, University of Manitoba
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Collection Development

Field Notes: Mass Spectrometry at the University of Manitoba

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Oct 8, 2019
With the recent announcement that James Peebles had won the Nobel Prize in Physics , it is timely to revisit the history of the Physics Department at the University of Manitoba. In 2013, I visited the department to learn specifically about their program in mass spectrometry. On a broader level, my research and collecting touched on aspects of Peebles's rich undergraduate experience in the 1950s. It has been over one hundred years since British scientists developed methods to deflect ions
A number of images of plants are superimposed over an aerial view of a farmer's field.
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Agriculture

Practising science communication at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum

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Oct 7, 2019
Four photographs showing the French actress Gaby Morlay undergoing her training aboard an airship of the Compagnie générale transaérienne. Anon., “La première femme pilote de dirigeable.” Le Miroir, 26 October 1919, 12.
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Arts & Design

“My diploma, I have it.”: Gaby Morlay, symbol of the free Frenchwoman of the roaring 20s and first female airship pilot in the world

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Oct 7, 2019
Hello, my reading friend, hello. Yours truly must confess that it is with a pleasure barely contained that I offer you this article. I am indeed fascinated by the flying cetaceans that airships were / are. Wishing to be brief, I will not make you wait any longer. You obviously remember that Le Miroir , of which yours truly used the photographs above, taken from the issue published on 26 October 1919, was the illustrated supplement of the great French daily Le Petit Parisien , and ... That doesn
A composite image made up of three pictures: an interstellar comet, a pile of tomatoes, and green bins lining street.
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Blog
Earth & Environment
Food
Space

3 things you should know — October edition

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Oct 2, 2019
Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Michelle Campbell Mekarski. These Ingenium employees are professional science communicators, and provide expert advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this new monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science communicators offer up three quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the October edition, they
The very first Zar Zar-Car automobile / microcar, Windsor, Ontario. Arthur Prévost, “La première auto entièrement canadienne bientôt en vente!” Le Petit Journal, 25 October 1959, 67.
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Road Transportation

In search of a Canadian car: The Zar of all the Windsors

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Oct 1, 2019
How you doin’, my reading friend? That well? Great. Are we ready for another journey down the autobahn of memory? Great. Yours truly has a topic that should be reasonably interesting, and this even though said topic might not be safe to drive on an autobahn. I found the article at the heart of our topic while perusing issues of Le Petit Journal , a weekly from Montréal, Québec, which went bye bye in January 1978. The issue we are interested in today came out 60 years ago, on 25 October 1959.
NAV CANADA employees work on computers at an area control centre in Winnipeg
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Article
Aviation

Check the locks: How to stay cyber safe

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Sep 30, 2019
In honour of Cyber Security Month this October, the Ingenium Channel spoke with two cyber security experts who have spent their careers looking out for the safety of Canadians. Read on to learn about the challenges they tackle on the job — and how you can stay safe online.
At a blackboard, Serge Lapointe of the Département de Physique of the Université de Montréal showing the evolution of rocketry since the Second World War. Anon., “Le fabuleux voyage de ‘Lunik II’.” Le Petit Journal, from 20 to 27 September 1959, 97.
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Space

The fabulous destiny of the Soviet lunar probe Lunik II

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Sep 30, 2019
A big interplanetary hello, my reading friend. Yours truly wishes to begin this text with an irrevocable promise: I shall be brief. A big thank you for your applause. I think. I must confess to being a little short of time these days and that’s why I looked at the photograph above, published in the 20 to 27 September 1959 issue of the weekly Le Petit Journal of Montréal, Québec. I dare to hope that this space topic, closely related to the fields of activity of the Canada Aviation and Space
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Space

StarBlox Inc. for Nintendo Switch

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Sep 30, 2019
StarBlox Inc. is a unique mash up of a puzzler and a brawler made in partnership with Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation.
A view of the solid-looking, wooden steering wheel, inside the pilot house from the SS Prince Edward Island.
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Article
Collection Development

Canada’s marine transportation artifacts will be better preserved in the Collections Conservation Centre

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Sep 26, 2019
An important piece of Canada’s marine transportation history has set sail for a new home in the Ingenium Collections Conservation Centre.